 He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore: his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the...  An Introduction to Astronomy ... - Page 332by John Bonnycastle - 1816 - 428 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Roy C. Flannagan - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 144 pages
...) . Milton would later re-create the view through Galileo's telescope in Paradise Lost, describing the Moon, whose Orb Through Optic Glass the Tuscan Artist views At Ev'ning from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new Lands, Rivers or Mountains in her spotty... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 2003 - 1084 pages
...toward the shore; his ponderous shield Ethereal temper, massy, large and round, 285 Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like...Orb Through Optic Glass the Tuscan Artist views At Ev'ning from the top of Fesolt, Or in Valdarno, to descry new Lands, 290 Rivers or Mountains in her... | |
 | John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes - Poetry - 2003 - 388 pages
...toward the shore; his ponderous shield Ethereal temper, massy, large and round, 285 Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like...Orb Through Optic Glass the Tuscan Artist views At Ev'ning from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new Lands, 290 Rivers or Mountains in her... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...toward the shore; his ponderous shield Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round,0 Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like...moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views0 At evening from the top of Fesole,0 Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands,0 290 Rivers or mountains... | |
 | Christopher Logue - History - 2003 - 242 pages
...the most advanced scientific work of his own day. In Paradise Lost (1.287-91), Satan bears a shield Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist [Galileo] views At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains... | |
 | Francis Blessington - Epic poetry, English - 2004 - 161 pages
...moving toward the shore; his ponderous shield Ethereal temper, massy, large and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like...Orb Through Optic Glass the Tuscan Artist views At Ev'ning from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new Lands, Rivers or Mountains in her spotty... | |
 | Michael Pupin - Science - 2005 - 309 pages
...historic visit to the blind and aged Tuscan philosopher: "... like the moon, whose orb Through optic gkss the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarao, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe." At that time Harvard College... | |
 | Angus Fletcher - History - 2007 - 204 pages
...moving toward the shore; his ponderous shield Ethereal temper, massy, large and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like...top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe. (1.283-291) There follows an extremely complicated simile... | |
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